India is poised to overtake the United Kingdom as the leading country of origin for Australian migrants as soon as this year.
On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics published annual data on migration, showing there are more Australians born overseas – 8.58 million, or 31.5 per cent of the total population measured at June 2024 – than at any point in history.
That is up from 8.2 million or 30.7 per cent the previous year, and 6.6 million or 28 per cent a decade ago.
‘The demographic markers of the nation’s White Australia Policy are well and truly coming to an end,’ ANU demographer Liz Allen told AAP.
The chief drivers of the soaring migrant numbers are Indian arrivals.
The number of Indian-born people living in Australia more than doubled in the decade to June 2024, jumping from 411,240 to 916,330.
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‘Plus, it’s peaceful here and far away from troubles.’
The leading country of origin in Australia has traditionally been the UK, but migrants from Old Blighty are trending downward.
There were 1.01m Australians born in Britain in 2014, but last year, that number fell to 963,560 – meaning, that on current trends, Indian migrants could leapfrog the UK as soon as 2025.
The four countries with the biggest rises of migrants in the past five years are India (505,000 people), China (234,000), the Philippines (164,000) and Nepal (155,000).
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Other countries to register noticeable rises include Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Colombia and South Africa.
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